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Tarzan on Mars
deep dimension and projected a double, slowly wheeling
shadow, and the yellows and reds of the perennial moss came
swirling into his vision like some ethereal revelation.
Simultaneously, a vagrant zephyr brought to him the
unmistakable scent of a stalking carnivore.
The apeman straightened. His eyes were filled with
magic color and movement, his nostrils quivered sensitively,
reading Usha the wind, as of old. Out there in the wheeling
shadows, a drama was being enacted which reminded him of
his African boyhood. He was keenly aware of the unseen
carnivore, and also, he now caught scent of its prey—an
unsuspecting herbivore of some kind which evidently derived
its sustenance from this spongy moss at his feet.
In a single moment, the bleakness was banished from his
heart and soul. The instinct of the hunting animal joined him
in brotherhood with his new environment, because it was not
so barren and strange, after all!
Suddenly, that same instinct caused Tarzan to gather his
tremendous earthly strength and leap forward with all his
might, because in the merest fraction of a second he had been
alerted to danger and had acted simultaneously.
To his entire astonishment, he sailed fully one hundred
feet through the air, but even before he landed he recalled
that Gridley had forewarned him of the lesser gravity of Mars.
Though the sensation was eerie, Tarzan was no unaccustomed
to long leaps through the air, and this was somewhat
analogous to being catapulted from the end of a swinging vine
into the branch of a distant tree. Nor was he unaccustomed to
preparing for defense even while in aerial flight.
So it was that he twisted fully around to face his attacker,
and when he hit the ground backwards, he was prepared to
utilize his momentum correctly. He grasped his shins and
rolled, but in such a way that he could catch a glimpse of the
thing which followed him.
And follow him it did, with a reverberating roar and the
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